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First first author pub, yay!

"Does skibidi come after sigma?" --an actual question asked to me, a person who translated ancient Greek for a degree

Wait take me with you

A poster with details for an art exhibition called "Cut / Paste". It runs from June 2 - October 31, 2025 in the Geography Department on the fourth floor of Cramer Hall at Portland State University. The opening reception was on Wednesday, June 4 from 4:30 - 6:30 pm. The poster also lists the names of 22 artists, and shows three map collages.

I've spent the past few months thinking with so many people's beautiful work, and I'm honored to share it more widely.

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Creative mapping can change the way we conduct and view research. Larsen puts theoretical work on researcher vulnerability into conversation with scholarship on place dialogue to explore how creative mapping facilitates relationship accountability in research. buff.ly/YQf4ItG

Squiggly blue strips of paper are overlaid on a city map that has had its blocks cut out.

Map collage update:

Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations Pumped storage hydropower development is rapidly resurging in the US, yet this energy storage technology has positive and negative impacts at different scales. Building projects that minimize trade-o....

New article!! 🎉 "Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations" w/ @thienkim.bsky.social @bethaniturley.bsky.social #geosky #energysky #water #geography

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There are two city maps with various city blocks and other features partially cut out, a utility knife, a highlighter, and a pile of paper scraps on a white work surface.

WIP for upcoming map collage workshop

A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.

Sometimes our government’s racism looks like incompetence and indifference. Because a federal clerk filed a treaty map under the wrong letter, Yakama Nation lost over 90,000 acres to Washington State. Now, the tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s...

"to listen for the creek when it is covered by concrete necessitates that we reach beyond thinking of a creek as something which exists in and of itself, in isolation."

Appreciate this challenge.

Not burnt

A dark brown cheesecake, nestled in parchment paper and sitting on a well-used baking sheet.

Looks burnt.

Pushing the limits of this Basque cheesecake recipe by just doing everything wrong, let's see how idiot-proof this thing is.

Do rivers unfurl?

Love to see it, and would love to know more about why only 225 of 375 acres were transferred.

One observation is the starting premise: "At our school, we practice restorative justice". As @nbedera.bsky.social noted, participation in this process must be voluntary. However, what actually feels voluntary to K-8 students in a traditional school environment?

I have been witnessing how restorative justice is being taught and talked about at the K-8 grade level. It's been a messy and difficult process. @nbedera.bsky.social articulates the pitfalls I've observed.

Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

Thanks for starting this thread. The Easterday story is so twisty, looking forward to listening to this podcast.

YouTube video by Hyperallergic Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art

My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

As I say over and over again, dams were designed for the climate of the past. Yet there are over 3,000 new large dams in the works globally. With increasingly severe droughts and floods, we need to pivot completely to other renewable sources of power.

It’s NEPA. He’s talking about a court finding that CEQ’s regs for NEPA were never actually regs but only guidances, non-mandatory.

Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2

Two to three Water-Energy Justice Research Graduate Research Assistantships/Fellow positions, Environmental Studies, San José State University, spring through fall 2025. Energy-Water Infrastructures and Just Transitions. Supported by NSF/USEPA. drive.google.com/file/d/1czcC...

I suppose I might swap out cumin for star anise in the summer.

I like your spice style.

Smoked paprika, cumin, cardamom.

Sarah holds up a calendar covered in iridescent silver/rainbow stickers. The top says "Frog Facts" and there are 7 frogs and toads on the calendar including a bullfrog, wood frog, and suriname toad in the water, a poison dart frog and leopard frog on land, and two kinds of tree frogs in the tree.

19 days until December 1. Do you have your advent calendar yet??

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